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Tour Scotland Burns Night Gift
Tour Scotland Video The Slave's Lament Robert Burns Song Burns Night Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of two young Scots singing a song by Robert Burns on Burns Night at the Taybank Pub on visit to Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. It is wonderful to see young Scots singing the songs of Robert Burns. In this video Laurie Cameron is the singer, accompanied by Hannah Fisher on violin. Well done the lasses.
The Slave's Lament.
It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral,
For the lands of Virginia,-ginia, O:
Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more;
And alas! I am weary, weary O:
Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more;
And alas! I am weary, weary O.
All on that charming coast is no bitter snow and frost,
Like the lands of Virginia,-ginia, O:
There streams for ever flow, and there flowers for ever blow,
And alas! I am weary, weary O:
There streams for ever flow, and there flowers for ever blow,
And alas! I am weary, weary O:
The burden I must bear, while the cruel scourge I fear,
In the lands of Virginia,-ginia, O;
And I think on friends most dear, with the bitter, bitter tear,
And alas! I am weary, weary O:
And I think on friends most dear, with the bitter, bitter tear,
And alas! I am weary, weary O:
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Tour Scotland Video Leezie Lindsay Taybank Pub Dunkeld Perthshire
Tour Scotland video of Dougie Law playing Leezie Lindsay tune by Robert Burns in the Taybank Pub in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Dougie is a friend of mine from Aberfeldy. who plays at many a Burns Supper in Scotland.
This is a lovely tune, and there are a number of versions of the words this song.
Will ye gang tae the Heilands, Leezie Lindsay ?
Will ye gang tae the Heilands wi' me ?
Will ye gang tae the Heilands, Leezie Lindsay,
My bride and my darling tae be ?
To gang to the Heilands wi' you, Sir,
I dinna ken how that may be,
For I ken nae the road I am gaeing,
Nor yet wha I'm gaun wi'
O, Leezie, lass, ye maun ken little,
Syne ye dinna ken me;
For I am Lord Ronald MacDonald,
A Chieftain o' high degree."
Oh, if ye're the Laird of MacDonald,
A great ane I ken ye maun be;
But how can a chieftain sae mighty
Think o' a puir lassie like me ?
She has gotten a gown o' green satin.
She has kilted them up tae her knee,
And she's aff wi' Lord Ronald MacDonald,
His bride and his darling tae be.
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Tour Scotland Video Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon Taybank Pub Dunkeld Perthshire
Tour Scotland travel video of Dougie Law playing Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon, a tune by Robert Burns, on his acoustic guitar on a visit and trip to Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire.
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fair!
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae fu' o' care!
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird
That sings upon the bough;
Thou minds me o' the happy days
When my fause Luve was true.
Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird
That sings beside thy mate;
For sae I sat, and sae I sang,
And wist na o' my fate.
Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon
To see the woodbine twine,
And ilka bird sang o' its love;
And sae did I o' mine.
Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Frae aff its thorny tree;
And my fause luver staw the rose,
But left the thorn wi' me.
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Old Photograph Robert Burns Statue Dumfries Scotland
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Tour Scotland Photographs Robert Burns Statue Dundee October 2nd
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Tour Scotland Old Mauchline Ayrshire
Tour Scotland old view of Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland. Robert Burns, Scotland's National Poet came to live on the outskirts of this village at Mossgiel farm in 1784. Many of his poems are believed to have been written whilst he was there, notably The Holy Fair, To a Mouse, and Holy Willie's Prayer. Many of his poems were directed towards the perceived hypocrisy of the Church. The Church was particularly fanatical in Mauchline, which conflicted with the liberal attitude of Burns and his friends. Nonetheless Burns made many friends (his wife Jean Armour was born in Mauchline) and a lot of enemies whilst in Mauchline, many of whom are buried in the kirkyard: "Holy Wullie" Willie Fisher, the Reverend William "Daddy" Auld, John Richmond, "Clockie" Brown and notably Gavin Hamilton his best friend.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Robert Burns Seat Birks of Aberfeldy
Tour Scotland photograph of Robert Burns seat at the Birks of Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland. Robert Burns wrote the song, " The Birks Of Aberfeldy " in late August 1787, during a visit to the Birks of Aberfeldy, then known as the Den of Moness. Legend has it that Burns wrote the song after resting in a natural seat on the rock, just at the side of the Birks. This natural seat is well known and a plaque now exists at the exact spot where Burns was inspired to write the ballad.
Now simmer blinks on flow'ry braes,
And o'er the crystal streamlet plays,
Come, let us spend the lightsome days
In the birks of Aberfeldie!
(Chorus)
Bonnie lassie, will ye go,
will ye go, will ye go,
Bonnie lassie, will ye go
To the birks of Aberfeldie?
The little birdies blithely sing,
While o'er their heads the hazels hing;
Or lightly flit on wanton wing
In the birks of Aberfeldie!
The braes ascend like lofty wa's,
The foaming stream, deep-roaring, fa's,
O'er-hung wi'fragrant spreading shaws,
The birks of Aberfeldie.
The hoary cliffs are crown'd wi'flowers,
White o'er the linns the burnie pours,
And, rising, weets wi' misty showers
The birks of Aberfeldie.
Let Fortune's gifts at random flee,
They ne'er shall draw a wish frae me,
Supremely blest wi' love and thee
In the birks of Aberfeldie.
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Old Photograph Interior Robert Burns Cottage Alloway Scotland
Old photograph of the interior of Robert Burns Cottage, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Video Robert Burns Event St Andrews Castle Fife
Tour Scotland video of a Robert Burns Event at St Andrews Castle, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. A video of Karen Nichols and Niall M. Robertson giving their presentation called; Robert Burns and Jean Armour the Bard and the woman in his life; illustrated by tales, songs and poems. Jean Armour, born 25 February 1765, died 26 March 1834, also known as the " Belle of Mauchline ", was the wife of the poet Robert Burns. She inspired many of his poems and bore him nine children, three of whom survived into adulthood. Jean was born in Mauchline, Ayrshire in 1765, she was second oldest of the eleven children of stonemason James Armour and Mary Smith Armour. She met Robert Burns on a drying green in Mauchline around 1784 when she chased his dog away from her laundry. According to Armour's testimony in 1827, she met Burns again at a local dance and they subsequently " fell acquainted ".
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Virtual Tour Burns Heritage National Park Scotland
A virtual Tour of Burns Heritage National Park, Alloway, Scotland. From, PikoDesign, 10 Maple Drive, Ayr, Scotland. Too small, then toggle to full screen view.
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September 5th Photograph Statue Robert Burns Dundee Scotland
September 5th photograph of the statue of Robert Burns in Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland. Robert Burns was born near Ayr, Scotland, 25th of January, 1759.
September 5th photograph of the statue of Robert Burns in Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland.
September 5th photograph of the statue of Robert Burns in Albert Square, Dundee, Scotland.
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Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion. His birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which included To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night, was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society. His later poems and ballads include Auld Lang Syne, the beautiful song My Love is like a Red Red Rose, Highland Mary, Scots Wha Hae and his masterpiece, Tam o'Shanter. The Collected Poems of Robert Burns (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Robert Burns Statue Dundee
Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Burns Statue, Dundee, Scotland.
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